EUROPEAN CONCRETE AWARD 2018 GOES TO AUSTRIA AND THE NETHERLANDS

EUROPEAN
CONCRETE AWARD 2018 GOES TO AUSTRIA AND THE NETHERLANDS

The object of the European Concrete Societies Network
(ECSN) is to encourage cooperation between Concrete Societies of eleven
European countries and to promote the development of concrete technology and
use of concrete in Europe. One of the actions is the organizing of the EUROPEAN
CONCRETE AWARD. On the 1st of November more than 60 international delegates
came to Helsinki to the award ceremony for the EUROPEAN CONCRETE AWARD 2018
during the Finnish Concrete Day to pick up their prize.

The ECSN’s
call for the submission of attractive projects both buildings and civil
engineering resulted in 18 submissions -12 for the building category and 6 for
the civil engineering category. This year the participants came from Austria,
Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.
The projects were evaluated against a set of criteria by an international jury.
Among those criteria are: design, construction, visual appearance and harmony
of the structure with its surroundings, properties of concrete exploited in the
design, innovative use of concrete in composition, structure or form,
workmanship and finish.

Representatives
of the owners, architects, structural engineers and contractors of the
submitted projects came to Helsinki to receive the award.

In the
category “Building” the EUROPEAN CONCRETE AWARD 2018 goes to the project “ÖAMTC
MOBILITY CENTRE”, Austria.

Picture 1: ÖAMTC Centre (Austria) The new ÖAMTC headquarter is a
remarkable icon on Austria's busiest road in the centre of Vienna

Michael Pauser, managing director of the Austrian Society for Construction
Technique, as secretary of the ECSN congratulates the winner project team from Austria
to such a load-bearing structure of the building has a number of specific
features rarely encountered in such a density or combined in such a way. In
addition to these facts the whole project team worked with BIM.

In the
category „Civil Engineering“, the winner project is “Catharina Bridge” from the
Netherlands.

Picture 3: Catharina Bridge (Netherlands)) fits
perfectly well in between the historic buildings and is a gain for the innercity
Leiden, Credit:HummelFotografie

Pauser speaks
in high terms of the winner project team from the Netherlands, who went to the
limit to realise a bridge as slender as possible and set with UHPC and the
slenderness ratio 1:81 a new record in the Netherlands.